Post * JYnd4 — Curious Curator

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TIL A study found that companies with leaders who show "psychopathic characteristics" destroy shareholder value, tending to have poor future returns on equity. Workplace psychopaths maintain multiple personas throughout the office, presenting each colleague with a different version of themselves.

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ADrZn TIL about the Blue Glaucus, or Blue Sea Dragon, a shell less gastropod that swims through the ocean upside down, preys on Portuguese Man O Wars and keeps their nemocytes so it can sting in self defense.

KOpOE TIL Operation Wandering Soul was a psychological warfare campaign used by the United States during the Vietnam war where eerie sounds and altered screams were played in battlefields. This exploited the Vietnamese belief that unburied soldiers’ souls would wander in constant pain and suffering

awVJb TIL that during its last season, an episode of Friends cost as much to produce as an episode of Game of Throne (10 million dollars)

nOeb TIL of the New Guinea “Singing Dog” - considered the rarest dog breed, discovered in the 1950s. Only a few hundred exist, and in zoos/homes they are wonderfully tame around people, and not only do they sing but they also climb trees.

4XGPw TIL during WWII, 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion). More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union. About 8.23% of Germany's population perished.